According to data compiled by European statistical agency Eurostat, just over half (50.7%) of all Hungarians could not afford to take a one-week holiday away from home this past year.

The report, which examined people 16 and older, found that around a third of the EU’s population (32.9%) cannot afford a vacation away from home.

You can view a graph summarizing Eurostat’s data below:

The best countries in this regard were Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany: in all of these countries, over 80% of the population can afford to take a week-long trip. In fact, in the case of Sweden, the leader in this category, less than 10% of the population was unable to take such a holiday.

At 50.7%, Hungary is at the lower end of the scale, although it is also one of the countries that saw the most significant improvement since 2011, when just under 65% of all Hungarians could not afford to travel. In other words, this is an improvement of over 15 percentage points.

The percentage of Hungarians who could not afford to take a one-week annual holiday away from home last year stood at 44.6% for families with two adults and a single dependent child and at just 33.4% for families with two adults and two dependent children.